Supply Chain Resilience During Economic Crisis: A Case of Construction SMEs in a Developing Country

Abstract

The ability of supply chains to cope with unexpected disruptions and quick recoverory while maintaining normal operations is referred as the supply chain resilience in supply chain management. Supply chain resilience refers to an organization's ability to effectively handle unpredictable situations or disruptions, both from within and outside the organization while efficiently using its existing resources. This study shows that SMEs in supply chain resilience are variables and that the ability to face disruptions is very low. The study aimed to determine how collaboration, entrepreneurial orientation, internal integration, outsourcing, and vulnerability affected supply chain resilience for the construction of Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) in a developing nation, during an economic crisis. The population in the study is all 195 Construction SMEs which is registered under National Entreprise Development Authority. This study is purely concentrated on using qualitative data. For the sampling technique authors used the purposive sampling method and data collection was conducted through eight structured interviews. The data has been analyzed using thematic analysis. Discussions were also carried out on other related strategies such as content analysis which means determining the inclusion of specific words, themes, and concepts in a given qualitative data set that can be combined with the above main variable to ensure a successful outcome; however, later they were diminished.